Advamtage of C++ over C wrt ESP32 FreeRtos applications

[vibnwis]

Hi All,

My intention is start to right foot for the development I am about to work on. I see many C++ adopted from C libraries. At the same time, I see many C++ libraries developed by Chips manufacturer. The results of that, I am thinking, using C++ for my ESP32 project might the right thing to do. However, I am hesitate because firstly, I am new to C++ ( but I can still code though). Secondly I do not know how extensive (complete) of C++ libraries at this point of time. Assuming all the existing C libraries are accessible, hence, is possible to adopt it to C++, is it correct? Thirdly, I see there is a trend in commercial world adopting C++ in their development instead of C. Hence, being or wanting to be part of the trend, I am motivated to use C++.

Would anyone share their preference and justification of decision, please?

Thank you
Vib

[loboris]

Maybe this article can help you decide.

[permal]

As long as the tools for the platform supports C++, that is my choice. Like the article @loboris linked, C++ can do anything C can (with a few syntactical differences) so imho, there is no good reason to limit yourself to C.

A word of caution: The C++ thread support in the Xtensa-port used to compile C++ for ESP32 is currently lacking, but Espressif is currently working on it according to this post.